Meaning

2 senses

  1. Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

    a deadpan face or look

    deadpan behaviour or speech

    ausdruckslos

    невозмути́мыйnevozmutímyj, бесстра́стныйbesstrástnyj

    deliberately impassive in manner

  2. Having such a face or look.

    The comedian remained deadpan.

    ungerührt

Examples

2 sentences

  1. His humour is very deadpan.

    ruУ него очень сухой и невозмутимый юмор. — odexed

    deEr hat einen sehr trockenen Humor. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. Comedian Les Dawson was famous for his gravelly, deadpan delivery.

    deDer Komiker Les Dawson war für seine rauhstimmige, todernste Art der Darbietung bekannt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look):
Deutsch
By meaning 2
deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look):
having such a face or look (as a person):

Origin

From dead + pan (“face”).

From dead + pan (“face”).

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Forms

more deadpan, most deadpan
Comparativemore deadpan Lesson
Superlativemost deadpan Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
poker-faced
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
deadlyB1deadnamedeafB1deafen

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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